For the theater critic Nadia Cherkashina, dark days have come—the magazine “Podmostki,” where she worked, was slowly dying. How to live? Where to find a new job? And, as if on purpose, Nadia urgently needed a large sum: her friend, before dying, left her a painting by Van Gogh—an unknown version of “The Potato Eaters.”
But trouble started right away for Nadia! An agent of Interpol showed up at Cherkashina’s place and announced: the painting is fake, and it was also stolen—and Nadia must return it to its previous owner. Thinking it over, Nadia decided to buy the canvas back, and to get the money from… her ex-husband, the famous actor Aleksandr Cholomogorov. True, for that she would have to marry him again—although after the betrayal Nadia no longer believed in his sudden burst of passion.
She didn’t know: Aleksandr is simply playing at love, and the stakes for this role are extremely high—his own life. Cholomogorov is being blackmailed, forcing him to take back the painting of Van Gogh from his former wife at any cost…